Israeli Absorption Minister Yair Tsaban has announced that he will retire from the government and Knesset service.
“After 45 year of uninterrupted and intensive political activity, I have designed to resign from the governmental and parliamentary arena,” he reportedly said last week.
Tsaban added that even though he would not be a Knesset candidate in the next elections, he would not resign from Mapam or Meretz, and would work on their behalf in the upcoming races.
The longtime Mapam leader was appointed absorption minister in 1992 by then- Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
The left-wing Mapam Party is one of the factions comprising the Meretz bloc.
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